What a beautiful movie!

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I went in to this movie thinking, 'Oh great, another 'found footage' film, a la 'Blair Witch Project''. It is so much better than 'Blair Witch', which I hated, and puts all similar Hollywood movies to shame. Instead of a filmed recording, this one is done with 'smart glasses'. The story was believable and the special effects were impressive. I was totally entertained and am dumbfounded by all the negative reviews.

Despite the stylized Z in the title, possibly to hang on to World War Z's brief popularity, this has seemingly nothing to do with zombies. overall this was a fun movie of the "found footage" genre in the form of a live first person Google Glass type thing the main character wears throughout. Maybe it's just a case of me being fascinated by a Jewish film, but I loved the look of the film and the ancillary characters, like the Palestinian hotel owner who accompanies them and his son Omar, and the brief fight he gets into with an IDF soldier later on in the midst of the Horror breakout, or the drunk guy playing King David.the film wisely keeps its horror elements largely out of site, not letting it linger on screen long enough for us to make out much detail and lose its shock factor, or for us to tell when the CG is bad. my only problem with the film is the cold open start, which I feel could've been done a whole lot shorter or with less "religious apocalypse" stuff. It kind of breaks immersion when that whole sequence ends up using an old Creepypasta picture of a skeletal mummy-type smiling figure which was long ago exposed as being a Halloween decoration taken in dim lighting. One thing which I found cute is that, while the main characters are American tourists, they are all played by Israeli actors, so every once in a while their accent slips. The character Kevin in particular seems to have his accent slip the most, sometimes becoming this odd mix of native American and Canadian accent that most seems to happen when he shouts or tries to slur certain syllables like an American would, not fully enunciating certain syllables

I am not sure how this falls under the horror genre. I was waiting to be horrified or shocked at the least...but it never happened. I always say that I need to watch something that everyone else says is bad, to make my own mind up about it. And this was bad. Started off well but quickly deteriorated into a rather boring event. And too many things did not make any sense and actually started to get more irritating as the movie went on. Sarah's crying was the most irritating of all, I turned the volume down completely. Instead of feeling frightened for her and hoping that they would all get out safely, I became indifferent.

The only reason I give this movie two stars instead of one is because the directors and writers had a good plot and good settings throughout the movie. The movie started out great and the concept was fantastic.The main character was terrible! She was an annoying character from the start when she chased the boy down the alley, fell down the stairs and just sat there whining. I had no sympathy for her the entire movie, especially when she insisted everyone stop heading to safety so she could rescue a guy she had just met. She is the idiot character that is supposed to die at the beginning of a horror film and instead they decided to make her the main character. If they had made her a smarter, savvier girl then this movie would have been fantastic. Warning: After the monsters show, all you can here is her whining and crying.